The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE London .4then9une informs the English
public that the paper which Mr.. Gladstone has
written for Boston periodical is addressed as
personal appeal to young Americans
Mas. CLEVELAND is a fairly good swimmer,
but does not care much for diving. She likes 10
swim out until the water is about up to her
neck and then swim Shoreward with SLOW ana
graceful stroke.
GROUND BEES have been making honey in the
collins of an old cemetery near San Francisco
and some Mexicans, discovering the fact, have
been selling the honey in the city. THIS Is as
curious thing almost as Samson S rlddlc.
GEN BELKNAP has son who some years ago
wanted to take a clerkship in Washington de-
partment, but his father begged him to do any
thing else that was honorable. He hired him.
self to a railway company as a brakeman ana
stuck to it. He has just been appointed ASSIST
ant Superintendent of the road
FARTHINcs are still in use in England although
to such limited extent that member of the
Royal Commission on Gold and Silver was g
norant of the fact until informed during an
investil alton some time ago. They are used
chiefly III buying Papers at trade prices, wheh
quarter fractions of penny come lhto use
PRoF. ELISHA GRAY is said to have made
new discovery, which promises as extraordinary
results as any obtained from the telephone. II
is called autobiography, and it is claimed that
it will be possible with its use to write upon
sheet of paper and to have an autographs fac
smile OF the writing reproduced by telegraph
300 miles away.
A LOUISVILLE Ky dispatch of Aug. 81 says:
Frank W. Harper of Versailles ordered to-day
a beautiful and costly monument of pure white
marble to be placed over Ten Broecks grave. 1t
will be seven feet and two inches high, sur
mounted with an urn The date of Ten Brooks
birth and death and his famous records will be
inscribed on the monument.
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dynasty, has been set up at Rome in memory of
the Italian sol iers destroyed at Dogali by the
Abyssinians. 1t was known to have existed in
Rome in the last century. but was rebound only
in 1888 Curiously enough, Rameses II. was u
conqueror of the very people who committed
the recent massacre at DOgali.
w. C. RALsToN, California millionaire, will
erect $500 900 hotel on Coronation Beach near
San Diego. 1t is to be built of redwood and
Oregon pine and surrounded by twenty acres of
ground adorned by tropical gardens. The house
is to have room to accommodate 1900 guests
and the furnishing will cost S6o0,0 600 They do
not do things half way in California.
THE jailer of the Pueblo county Jail, Colorado,
permitted one of the prisoners to play the VIC
lin evenings. The other night the scraping be
gap at an early hour, and was kept up contin-
uously and vigorously until late when it ceased.
In the morning the jaier found that under cover
of the music four prisoners had sawed off a por
ton of a window casing, worked big stone
out of place and escaped
JOIN BRowN JR., son of the Harpers Ferry
raider. is G6 years old and is engaged in grape
growing ON Put-in-Biy Island, in Lake Erie
He is Justice of the Peace of Put in Bay Town
ship, consisting of eight inhabited islands in
that part of the lake. He has for many years
given much attention to geology, particularly in
the evidences of the glacial action as shown on
the islands of Lake Erie and vicinity
EVER since the introduction of skin-grafting
the photographers have harped on the story Of
the white man who had piece of negro's skin
grated on his arm, which patch gradually grew
larger, and finally changed the man into a
negro Prof. Thiersch, of Leipzig, has now
shown that if piece of Negroes skin is grated
on white man, the piece of transplanted skin
gradually changes its color till it is white, and
conversely If piece of white skin is grated on
negro.
New York rogue, William Hayes went
a-fishing for gold-headed canes on Friday night
He had wire hook fastened to leather strap
jewelers. windows were his fishing places. At
one store he broke the glass with stone wrap
ped in flannel so as to deaden the noise. Then
he reached in his line and landed a gold-headcd
cane. He caught some more like it, and some
also with silver heads. a policeman came
along, and with pair of handouts fished in the
fisherman
The name ''roorbach, applied to a campaign
yarn, is derived from Baron Roorbach's Travels
and Observations" which were the "tattooed
man" sensation of the Pok-Cla campaign
They contained one story which proved nearly
fatal to Polk-that negroes might be seen in the
Southern States with the initials u. K. P"
burned into their flesh. Tho travels were not
written by Thurlow Weed, as is sometimes
stated but by a man named Linn, who lived and
died at Ithaca, n. Y.
For rendering fabrics wood and other infiam-
mable objects fire-proof, a writer in La Nature
recommends borotungstate of soda, salt which
he states has never hitherto been employed for
the purpose. Ii is made by dissolvng boric
acid in hot solution Of tungstate of soda. OBJ
| jects impregnated with this solution are rem
dered ncombuStible. The solution gives off no
deeterious gas, while ammoniacal salts. phos-
phate of ammonia and salts of phosphorus rem
der the air irrespirable.
PERE HYAcINTHE is living in the suburbs of
Paris. He is chiefly affected patronized, one
might say-by the evangelical English, and sew
eral noble dowagers are Nine. LoySon's init
mates. The Loysops exc out their income by
taking boys into the family for instruction
The household also comprises some young
priests of the new cult These are rendered
useful in various ways, A young boy, an in
mate for sometime of the household, says that
they fetch and cary, and that on one young
priest devolves the duty of keeping the coal
scuttles full.
The death of Gen. Phil Kearney at the second
battle of Chantilly, has always been shrouded
| Ill mystery. Tie WAS killed. Instantly, DuU Une
| circumstances which led to his death have hith-
| erto been kept quiet Gen. Pierce Young, of
| Georgia, has just returned from st Petersburg
| where he was United States Consul General He
| was Confederate officer during the war, and
| says that at Chantilly he and his command I'M
| expectedly surrounded Kearney and his staff
| Young who had been a classmate and friend of
| Kearney, motioned TO the Union General to es-
| cape. Kearney saw the signal, but before he
| could take advantage of it was shot dead by the
| Confederate troops
A. w. FRANKS has presented to the British
Museum most remarkable coin, lately re-
ceived from India. 1t is a decadrachm of the
| Bactrian series. the first ever met with and
| bears on the diverse a horseman charging with
| his lance an elephant, on whose back are two
warriors, and on the reverse q king or Zeus
| standing, holding a thunderbolt and spear; in
| the field is monogram composed of the letters
| ABB. The diverse records some victory of the
| Greeks the barbarians, and the reverse
| may be a representation of Alexander the Great
| The coin evidently comes from the district of
| the Oxus, and was struck about the middle of
| the second century b. c.
| J. j. ALBERT, Louisville barber, had $1,000
insurance against disability" in the Order of
Chosen Friends His hands became paralyzed.
so that he could no longer WELD razor, but his
claim for the insurance money was denied, and
he began suit to recover it, Judge Barr, of the
United States Circuit Court decided the case
against him on the ground that his disability
was not such as to prevent him from earning a
livelihood. II was in evidence that Albert had